The World As 1

The civil society initiative Public Room in the period of 20th November - 20th December, 2008 is official host of the first solo exhibition of Olivera Velkova in Macedonia ”The World As 1”.

The exhibition “The World As 1” presents carefully selected artworks from the Мaster cycle “The World As 1 V07” and different presentations and collective exhibitions in France – Paris 2004, Arles 2005 and USA - New York 2007, during the 7 years living, working and creating in Paris. Curator of the exhibition is Ms. Ana Frangovska

Olivera VELKOVA was born on 27th of April 1977 in Skopje, Macedonia. She graduates on the Faculty of Architecture, UKIM in Skopje, Macedonia – 2001, and shortly after moves to Paris, where she enrolls post-graduation studies in Medias, Visual Communication and Management at University ESDI Creapole, Paris. Immediately after the graduation 2002, she starts a professional carrier as a Consultant in PR in the domain of visual communication and management in fashion, luxury goods and events; for the period of 2002-2007.

During the entire period of 7 years living, working and creating in Paris, and the numerous travels and researches worldwide, she successfully express these experiences on the canvases, as well as trough other forms of Arts such as Film and Music. This is happening to be crowned with a first solo exhibition, exactly in her homeland Macedonia, under the title “The World As 1”. Because “Life is Art”, her favorite credo, which she’s approving constantly with her existence and presenting Macedonia worldwide as a true ambassador, she is currently a student for Master of Art in Diplomacy and International Relations, UACS 2008/2009 and in London, UK 2009/2010

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

• New York, USA – January 2007: Le Jungle Art Gallery, SOHO: ”Love” (acrylic on canvas, 90x120cm), “Identity” (acrylic on canvas 83x130cm) / Collective Exhibition
• Arles, FRANCE – June 2005: Les Rencontres d’Arles – HypeGallery:  photography of Modern Art “Hush Baybe…Jazz in Paris” (vinyl satin c/c PVC, 120x160cm) / Collective Exhibition
• Paris, FRANCE – November 2004: Museum of Modern Art – Palais de Tokyo : photography of Modern Art “Happiness is Mine, Happiness is Mind” (vinyl brilliant c/c PVC, 100x150cm) / Collective Exhibition + Auction

SOLO EXHIBITION

• Skopje, Macedonia – November 20th 2008 – December 20th 2008

Public ROOM Promo CENTER - “The World As 1”

AWARDS, PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS AND ARTISTIC ACHIEVEMENTS

• 2007 Festival de Cannes, PR and Representative for H.R.H. Prince Faisal Bin Sultan Bin Mohammed Bin Abdulaziz AL SAUD
• 2002/2007 Paris, Professional singing classes in Jazz in the class of Karene Acampora, Julliard School NY, USA / Opera Soprano Singer
• 2002/2007 Paris, Act_World_Wide Studio, Bob Mc Andrew LA-Paris
• 2006 S.A.G. Hollywood Contract / Movie “The Ultimate Proposal” / Production “Love Truth & Reality Entertainment Group Co”, Los Angeles 2006
• 2002 Paris, Presentation of the film “1 Day in Skopje” in Museum “Albert Khan”
• 2002 Nice, France Finalist at the biggest National Casting for Young Acting Talents CASTING AZUR FRANCE 2002 / Press details “Casting Magazine”, “Nice Matin” etc.
• 2002 International Biennale of Architecture 2002 – Museum of Contemporary Art – Skopje, Macedonia – Participation as a Finalist with the Thesis of B.Sc.Arch.
• 2000 Documentary film “1 Day in Skopje” by Eric Darmon, director and producer of “Memoire Magnetique” Paris, 2001
• 2000 Becomes a model for agency “Casting Director” Paris

THE WORLD AS 1 – Olivera Velkova

The Art of Olivera Velkova is unpresumptuous although at the same time vividly strong. Her intention is not to put on and to announce or transmit a certain narration, but she initiates the observer while the act of observing to drown into his inland, in his intimacy and to become aware of himself, and trough oneself to become aware of the Other, as well as the world around him. Therefore, the title of the exhibition: The World As 1.

Stylistically and conceptionally the artworks are different, but the panoptic behind them represents different states of mind and reflections of Velkova. Behind each and every artwork there’s a hidden story that remain only hers or it is inspired, as a beginning, in the title of the artwork; but the abstract direction of the artworks allows freedom in decoding of the message or the emotion.

The abstract expressionism, as also the art of colored field, are the main stylistic directions on the canvases. On one hand are the pure vivid fields without sharp edges, with certain switches in another nuance or color, as simple ideas but concentrated art cores, which are treating the problem of Sun on different levels. The other type of artworks where the previous pragmatic and rational colorings switch in dynamic and fissured movements that obviously according to the action of motion, have characteristics of transmitting a deep emotional bound, feeling, mental condition. In certain moments these movements are successively prolonged one after another, and with what’re suggesting a motion, that on different paintings has different directions, sometimes straightforward directed movements and rhythms, and sometimes spirally, as a storm, like introvert or the opposite, extravert set up movement of the emotion. The softness and poured out chromatic directions are creating the misty apparition that in certain segments is interrupted with sharp colored unit or segment, that brings the attention back, on the reality. Thus is for example the artwork “La-Croix Influence”. 

Sometimes, in certain artworks are appearing particular significant signs or forms, so there are even paintings consisting only and uniquely known symbols, such as the word LOVE, which is projected entirely on the surface of the canvas transmitting the message directly.

In accordance with the line of the abstract expressionism, “the dripping” as an expressive action of splashing or “flowing” of colors, is one other form of painting complementation of the composition’s organization of Velkova’s paintings, in a role of secondary finish of the idea. This can be foreseen best in the artwork “Lava”.

The color, in Velkova’s art of painting, carries the primate of the creator of the idea, or the beginner of the reflection. The equal treatment of the harmony and the chaos, creates equilibrium which is necessary for one artwork in order not to be neither boring, neither mixed-up, because harmony without chaos doesn’t exist, nor vice versa.

Besides with art of painting, Velkova takes also interest in photography, in which she is the principal “pillar”. The photography as well as the paintings have different stylistic approach and compose placement, but still their treating in general is: the happiness of living.

The photography“Happiness Is Mind – Happiness is Mind, is treating several painter’s elements and key principles of an endured artwork. Black and white technique, interesting perspective, with elevated view angle, a composition that offers new aspect of observing and receiving of the performance, excellent approach towards the accenting of the texture and alignment and emphasis of the plans, excellent treatment of the contrast light-shadow etc. On the other hand “Hush Baybe…Jazz in Paris” has more classic treatment. It’s about a color-photography that is representing a group figurative scene, in urban-jam ambient, but thus what’s interesting here, is that the emphasis isn’t achieved with frontal obtrusiveness, but with the excellent freezing of breaking of light.

Velkova identifies herself with her art. Trough her art, she transmits her vision and sensibility for the basic elements: air, water, earth and fire; her own philosophical postures for love, birth, growth and progress, loss, separation, death, those basic values that makes the life a life, and us people.